Carlos Tanner has been studying the science of ayahuasca and plant medicine in the Amazon Rainforest since 2003. He currently works as the director of the Ayahuasca Foundation, a non-profit organization he began in 2009 in Iquitos, Peru. He organizes healing retreats and educational courses led by indigenous healers, called curanderos, to help people in need of healing anything from depression to cancer or who are interested in learning the ancestral healing traditions of the Amazon.

Since 2017, the Ayahuasca Foundation has also hosted plant medicine research looking at how attending an ayahuasca retreat can impact people with depression, anxiety, or trauma. Over a dozen articles have been published from this research, including in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry demonstrating that attending an ayahuasca retreat can produce epigenetic changes that significantly reduce depression and anxiety. Research continues at the center and now includes studying chronic pain, PTSD in veterans, and changes to the gut biome as a result of attending an ayahuasca retreat.

He is always happy to answer any questions sent to him through the website or directly to his email. Visit the Ayahuasca Foundation website for more information.